[comp.emacs.xemacs] Re: M-x shell fails under Windows Vista

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an naoú lá déag de mí Aibréan, scríobh Michael Sperber: 

 > "Sean Boisen" <sean at logos.com> writes:
 > 
 > > (user-home-directory)
 > > "c:\\Users\\sboisen"
 > 
 > Wow.  So I can't see a reference to a drive other than C: anywhere,
 > which makes this pretty much the end of my rope.  Having tangled with
 > Vista before, I'm inclined to point the finger in that direction.
 > 
 > Is there anything on Windows to, like, trace system calls or
 > something?

I’ve found the Sysinternals tools to be very useful for this sort of thing,
in particular FileMon from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/fileanddiskutilities.mspx

and Process Explorer from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/securityutilities.mspx

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